"grain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The scientists suggested that the microscopic grains of silicon carbide they found were probably formed in the atmosphere of one or more red dwarf stars.
- Researchers at many corporate laboratories are now focusing on the microscopic grains that make up the ceramics, and particularly the boundaries between the grains, as possible sources of trouble.
- Replies: I think there is one place in their brains which has a cluster of microscopic grains of iron oxide.
- In metal plasticity, for example in steel, the size of a dislocation is sub-grain size while for soil it is the relative movement of microscopic grains.
- (Hayabusa returned microscopic grains of asteroid material in 2010, and Stardust returned cometary dust in 2006.)
- Contrary to an opinion sometimes expressed, people do not have rocks in their heads, although their inner ears do contain some microscopic grains of calcium carbonate called otoconia.
- However most magnetic materials are polycrystalline, composed of microscopic crystalline grains.
- Millions of microscopic grains of gold dust or tungsten powder are coated with the genes and fired into wheat grain tissue consisting of millions of cells.
- When exposed to light the silver nitrate decomposes to produce microscopic grains of silver, which appear black.
- The meteoroid that punched through both layers of the plastic was a nearly microscopic grain of dust.
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